2000 - 2008

my gut says 2001

hah exactly my thoughts

'03 probably 2nd

Heart says 04, head says either 01 or 02. I'm going with 04.

Tricky. 01, 02, 04 and 07 are all in the running quite seriously. I think I'd have to go for 07.

I went for 07. A year that gets better and better the more I think about it.

03

07. but that's also the year that i probably paid the most attention to new releases

03

get low
damn
salt shaker
never scared
adidas/monster
right thurr
crazy in love
trap muzik/be easy
get ya mind correct
$ick of bein rich
t-rock 4:20
bubba sparxxx shit
philadelphia freeway
2pac & biggie rap phenomenon cds
ignition rmx/chocolate factory
get rich or die tryin/in da club
big money heavyweights
mississippi/like a pimp
let 'em burn
clap back
freek-a-leek
married to the game
drankin patnaz
fiend's can i burn
swishahouse day all hell broke lose comp w/ the o.g. still tippin
that black moon joint with "stay real"
pump it up
through the wire
dipset anthem
state prop 2 and peedi shit
milkshake
louis logic
that sean paul joint with "get busy"
juve the great
da unbreakables
pitch black
stunt 101
that mary j joint with meth on it
la bella mafia
the ownerz
the listening
rip the jacker
visions of gandhi
that scarface joint with "recognize"
chicken n beer/stand up
that twista joint with "slow jamz"
speakerboxxx
black album
that ginuwine joint with "in those jeans"

pitch black

this sucked cept for the single & the track w/ foxy brown

but otherwise yeah 03 was the shit

you seriously just picked that out a post w/ like 40 albums

meant its all real anyway

kish kash thread maybe my favourite ilm album thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%26_Found:_Hip_Hop_Underground_Soul_Classics was 03 altho recorded in the 90s

i also dug the two mf doom records that came out this year ... viktor vaughn & king geedorah

"saliva" is dope

serious what year is fuckin with 03??

its probably cuz of some end of h.s. / beginning of college nostalgia to me but i still love '01

do a list like mine for 01

dungeon family
de la
the outkast greatest hits
blueprint/unplugged
daft punk
kylie
stillmatic
iron flag
miss e ... so addictive
genesis
dirty money
bulletproof wallets
1st petey pablo
bubba sparxxx
ludacris
canibus
kelis
masta ace
christina milian
NERD
nivea
fabolous
choices: the album
eastsidaz
aaliyah
kurupt - 'space boogie'
tha liks - xo experience
d12, lol
foxy brown - broken silence
redman - malpractice
hi-teknology
petestrumentals
jadakiss 'kiss the game goodbye'
big pun - 'endangered species'
gorillaz, lol
atmosphere 'lucy ford'
trick daddy 'thugs are us'

forgot pastor troy

basement jaxx 'rooty'

'03 was better for rap. '01 was a bigger year for my pop-wise ... kylie, daft punk, basement jaxx, aaliyah, etc

im probably forgetting a bunch of 01 rap though --

like screwball - 'loyalty'

Music by Eric Sermon F/Marvin Gaye

mystikal - Tarantula

was fat joe - jose any good

'we thuggin' was great imo

G Dep's solo album was '01

i guess a lot of shit i think of as '01 was actually '00 because i wasnt thinking of music as a music nerd critic dude at the time

was fat joe - jose any good

― deej da 5'9 (deej), Friday, February 27, 2009 10:36 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u know im a stan but yeah this is a classic - half raw DITC shit half flawless radio rap that still runs grimy

if you never heard "my lifestyle" or the joint with MOP & petey pab cop that

production lineup

psycho les, buckwild, cool & dre, rockwilder, bink, alchemist, lv/hitmen, dj nasty (dude who did "grew up a screw up"), reef, self

Everything so far is all fine and dandy unless you're not really into hip hop.

2000 was pretty nice actually

MOP - Warriorz
Shyne
Black Rob
D'Angelo
Luomo
Avalanches
Stankonia
DITC
8Ball and MJG - Space Age 4Eva
big l - the big picture
supreme clientele
like water for chocolate
theo parrish - parallel dimensions
big tymers - i got that work
that shanks & bigfoot 2step mix tim f. put me on to
balance & options
Waves
that MRI album
snoop - the last meal
mystikal
1st jill scott album
tp2.com
slum village
big pun YEAHHHHH BABY!!!
kompakt - total vol. 2
Kelis Kaleidoscope
Phoenix, United
nelly furtado
screwball - y2k
xtrmntr
queens of the stone age - rated r
beanie sigel - the truth
prodigy - hnic
3-6 mafia -- that one w/ sippin on syrup on it
project pat - ghetty green i think? or the one after it but before mista dont play (which should be on the '01 list)
parental advisory
jay-z
trick daddy
trina
the lox
ruff ryders
z-ro
marshall mathers lp
Notorious K.I.M.
busta - anarchy
too short - you nasty
mac dre
nelly

whatever singles off chronic 2001 came out in 2000 (were there any or were they all '99?)

Everything so far is all fine and dandy unless you're not really into hip hop.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, February 27, 2009 9:42 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wahhh

Well, not EVERYTHING, but there's a big, big bias.

dude dont you start threads discussing "MUSIC" that end up being 99% indie rock

'bias' -- yes, thats sort of what 'taste' is

JOSE is kinda weak imo, at least compared to Loyalty or Me Myself & I

I voted 02, my favorite singles year of the decade. 01 and 04 and 07 right behind it.

This entire decade has been pretty impressive, musically speaking. I'm gonna have to go with '01 since that was the year my electro addiction reached new heights.

2005 might be either the worst or the best depending where you look at.

Either way I'm voting 2005, mainly because that was the year that I finally got a decent internet connection prompting me to finally get to hear a whole lot of great releases I hadnt had any chance of listening before.

Also Books' Lost & safe & Paavoharju's Yha Hammara got released that year and they're amongst my favorite releases fo the decade.

toss up between '01 and '04. '01 helped to kick start the decade for me, with the rise of electro and 2manydjs bridging the genre gaps between dance and rock, also daft punk and Warp Records last gasp before going rubbish with great albums by Aphex, Autechre, Plaid etc.

'04 on the other hand had a lot of great indie and noise records.

03 > 01 > 06 > 04 > 08 > 05 > 00 > 07 > 02

2003 was the year where every other song on the radio was mind-bendingly good, so that is my pick.

either 03 or 04 for me...I can't quite decide...just before I fell off the face...

How can you guys even remember what came out every year?

03 but it's not really my decade

How can you guys even remember what came out every year?

^^^
THIS.

I have no fucking idea about any of this except maybe like, liking '05 because it was a good year for dubstep.

How can you guys even remember what came out every year?

mp3 tags dude

They're all different years.

Unless everything you own is in iTunes, I don't see how that helps.

Years are cool.

I'm just basing it on memories. Of course its unscientific as fuck. Btw rev how can u have 03 and 01 first and 02 last? Makes no damn sense

because not much good stuff came out that year? seems simple enough

2001 was mindblowingly good, 2002 slightly less so, 2003 somewhere in between. The rest was down. WAY down.

Years are cool.

― Wax Cat, Saturday, 28 February 2009 00:32 (1 hour ago)

Wax Cat OTM

As mentioned upthread, 2007 was especially good for both radio pop and indie/underground releases, and maybe some other genres mentioned but I'd have to read what came out to remember. 2001 is filled with a lot of albums that already seem canonized. 2003 was my HS "classic rock year" and I didn't follow the scene. The following year I started following new music and while I remember plenty of memorable music from 2004 I doubt it was a reflection on the year being terrific as it was my own musical gluttony.

That's a very tricky variable in a thread like this. Some years you listened to everything and can give an insightful assessment while in others you let others listen to everything and you were on that second tier of people who just heard "the best" as filtered by others. What was filtered for you determines what you thought of the year. For instance I thought 2006 was pretty mundane, but was that just me?

ugh, 2007 was terrible for pop radio imo. Only reason it wasn't last in my list was cause it had some decent albums.

Out of those I would say 2005, although 2005 had a slightly larger number of perfect albums. 2005 had the best Top 3 whereas 2002 had the best Top 20, if you know what I mean.

It is between those two anyway, although I do have the impression that 2009 might become a contender.

I went for 2002, I mean.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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My view of '03 is really skewed; except for '06, I heard less music that year than any other this decade, mostly because I was moving cross-country and started a job (which was music related, but adjusting to things took a while). I should probably revisit it some.